Originally Posted by
jdorje
Also, just to back flogger up, if a top kingdom had an "age without naps" they wouldn't be a top kingdom. You'd get in one early war and then you would be 20k acres behind and out of the picture. And then you'd get another fight, and another, and fall further behind. Because no matter how good you are or how many wars you win, every one of them loses you acres compared to the dicing kingdoms. You can take out one or two of them but then you're out of the picture.
The solution is simple: all the top kingdoms just nap each other until yr8. By that time if everyone dices fully and doesn't get stalled everyone will be 200k. Once you are 200k acres you can finally fight and possibly (though it's very hard) take more acres in a war than you would get by dicing.
Another solution is what I have proposed elsewhere: have dicing acres stick around, so if you war you can still clean them out afterwards (if you're good enough to take the econ penalty). This one would be a lot more fun, but it isn't under top kingdoms control though, so the only thing we can do is the first solution.